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Yeah, when your competitor is one of the biggest companies in the world who's willing to light millions on fire to offer a COMPLETELY FREE competitor for the sake of "developer mindshare", it's pretty easy to see the end result.

I was really a skeptic for years, but Microsoft really threw money at this until it won.

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This is probably the main reason why I won’t use it anymore: Microsoft is repeating in VSCode all the things it did in the Windows/IE era.

First thing I did in VScode was install/activate Vim mode.

So if VScode does go the way of Windows, then I'll "just" go back to another editor with vi bindings.

(yes yes, I remember some of my emacs bindings, wrote a thesis in latex on emacs, and learnt lisp as a result, but I realised that vi was more "portable")

btw, Sublime Text has a built in vim bindings albeit disabled by default. I suggest you give it a try.

> Microsoft is repeating in VSCode all the things it did in the Windows/IE era.

Example?

They embraced open source software and open protocols like LSP to get as many programming languages working with VSCode as possible and then they licensed their own pylance language server so that you can’t use it outside of VSCode.

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